But much of the music was pleasant, and the body heat generated by the audience kept Ives Hall relatively warm Sunday.

The musicians started with a horn fanfare and shimmering strings that helped them spring into action in Carl Maria von Weber's overture to "Oberon."

The second theme was well handled, with clarinet leading the strings, ending with a brass crescendo surging into the finale.

There was no danger of frostbite in the pastoral first movement of Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 76. Woodwinds repeated birdlike passages, and all sections were engaged in the rich themes in the country dance.